Sure, it’s cold, but let’s talk garden tour

Tuesday

Feb 26, 2008 at 12:01 AMFeb 26, 2008 at 7:07 PM

The annual Notable Garden Tour was an outstanding success for the 11th year, and that success is due to each and every one of you and your dedication, time and talent, financial support and volunteer service.

Jan Salzer and Bob Steinle

The annual Notable Garden Tour was an outstanding success for the 11th year, and that success is due to each and every one of you and your dedication, time and talent, financial support and volunteer service. Nearly 600 people — guests, sponsors, VIPs and volunteers — enjoyed the day, thanks again to you.

To our Garden Tour Committee, support team and garden captains: Each of you worked very hard to ensure that the tour would be a positive experience for everyone.

Thank you for attending many meetings and spending countless hours in telephoning, etc.; thank you for your ideas; thank you for your talents; and thank you for your commitment to making the tour the best it could be.

To our tour volunteers, visual artists and musicians: We are so grateful to all of you who shared your many talents to entertain our guests, to ensure that our guests were made to feel welcome, and to be a liaison between our guests and our garden hosts. Your generous participation continues to make the tour unique among garden tours, and comments from our guests are full of appreciation for your presence.

To our community partners: Thank you to Greece Community Education, GCSD Imaging Center, Democrat and Chronicle, Greece Post, Piano and Organ Center and Rebecca LeClair of WHEC-TV 10 for significant contributions that were critical to the success of the tour.

To our garden hosts: It goes without saying that the success of the tour was due to you and to your untold efforts in moving tons of mulch, edging miles of beds and borders, weeding acres of gardens, and for your generosity in presenting your properties, which are testaments to your creative genius and to your hard work. We can never say thank you enough.

The Notable Garden Tour provides significant funding for the Greece Performing Arts Society. We are very pleased with the bottom line of the 2007 garden tour — net proceeds $9,500. This result is one in which everyone can take pride.

Encouraged by the positive results of the 2007 tour, the Garden Tour Committee has moved forward with plans for the 12th annual Notable Garden Tour to be held Saturday, June 14. The committee visited gardens this past summer and selected six residential gardens and the Greece Historical Society with its gardens, where we will present the Garden Market.

Though we now face the cold, dark days of winter, in a few short months these Greece gardens will be ready to thrill us with their profusion of colors, their creative designs, their special plant specimens and, not least, with the gracious hospitality of very accomplished and dedicated gardeners. We look forward to another opportunity to shine the spotlight on Greece properties which will inspire you and make your heart sing.